Position: Lateral Legal Recruiting Manager
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $160K-$180K
Work Schedule: 5 days a week on-site

Summary:

We are seeking a Lateral Legal Recruiting Manager for our client in the New York office. The Lateral Legal Recruiting Manager will support the full life-cycle of lateral recruitment, with a particular focus on special counsel and all associate-level positions across all practice areas. The Lateral Legal Recruiting Manager will assist the Senior Manager of Legal Recruiting in creating, developing, and implementing effective processes and best practices.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage lateral hiring activity (e.g., interface with recruiting agencies and partners, handle scheduling, coordinate onboarding and integration with the Talent Management and Conflicts teams).

• Monitor market conditions and trends related to lateral recruitment; make suggestions on process improvements to hiring practices.

• Maintain relationships with recruiters at agencies and search firms; remain in frequent communication with trusted recruitment partners and headhunters to ensure top talent is being submitted to the firm.

• Perform statistical analysis on hiring trends and attrition, and present progress reports as requested.

• Closely monitor practice group needs with Managing Partners and frequently share applications with senior partners for review.

• Assist with coordinating the Firm’s Visiting Lawyers Program by managing communication between partners, clients, and candidates (e.g., tracking candidates and correspondences, scheduling interviews, participating in LL.M. Job Fairs aimed at recruiting Visiting Lawyer candidates, etc.).

• Organize firm meetings between partners and agencies related to recruitment programming.

• Manage vendor relationships, including those involving recruiting technologies.

• Manage relationships with other service departments (i.e., notifying other departments of upcoming hires, tracking technology requests/changes, etc.).

• Work with Talent Management with respect to onboarding practices.

• Manage events calendar with other constituents.

• Train and coach junior staff. Work closely with recruiting teammates, as needed, when lateral recruitment needs additional support.

• Assist non-NY offices with lateral associate recruitment, as well as the Executive Director’s office with partner recruitment, as needed on an ad-hoc basis.

• Special projects or other duties may be assigned within other areas of the LTO specifically, Talent Management, Learning & Development, and Diversity Management Department.

In addition, responsibilities related to maintaining firm and client information are to be adhered to by all employees. This includes complying with the firm’s information security policies, protecting firm assets from unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, destruction, or interference, and reporting security events or potential events or other security risks to management.

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of recruiting experience in a law firm.

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• The California Fair Chance Act
• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance